<not the adventure> Burn down the town

[Harmon]

This is perfect

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=rpga/hq/polyffs4

How many GMs out there have had something like this happen to them?

How many Players have done this to their GM?

Work on a village, or city and the PCs burn it to the ground or destroy it, not as the campaign would dictate but because they wanted to destroy it or because it just happened to go that way?

 

[Wycen]

Definitely have had that happen.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Yeah, we set a fire inside a town surrounded by a wooden palisade as a diversion for an escape from jail. We barely got out the gate on the other side of town in time to avoid being killed by the flames. The town was destroyed, and many people died in the fire.

 

[LeapingShark]

What is Doug doing to himself in the bottom left panel? :\

 

[Bront]

Amazingly, no. But that's because my PCs have every expressed even the slightest intent of ever burning down a town.

 

[Zappo]

Nope. It's quite hard for a four-men group to destroy a town of respectable size. You need to be either very well-organized or high level, and the type of group who would burn down a town on a whim generally isn't the former and doesn't live long enough to be the latter.

 

[DragonLancer]

Been there once as a player. Its going back many many years but I was playing in a MERP game set in the city of Cardolan. I had been set up by a criminal band we were investigating, and the first thing that came to my mind (I don't know why) was to start a series of fires to draw the Watch away from looking for us. As is always the way, the fires got well out of control and we fled as quickly as we could!

 

[Andre]

In my last campaign, I was running several concurrent plots. The players had considerable freedom in choosing what to investigate, but the ignored plots continued naturally. The party ignored a half dozen chances to investigate/impede an army of monsters threatening their primary base, a small town. Eventually, the army overran the town and it was burned to the ground in an attempt to cover the townsfolk fleeing into the hills.

I think it really surprised the players that their town was destroyed just because they didn't do anything to prevent it.

 

[Frostmarrow]

Why burn a town when you can paint it red? Just asking.

 

[Mista Collins]

Never had this happen as a player, but as a DM I have burned down a few towns in my day. And even painted a few red (among other pretty colors).